The Territory is a visually stunning documentary about the human costs of climate change, as an Indigenous Brazilian tribe fights for their survival.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2024

A visually stunning masterpiece that focuses on the connection between community and the importance of learning how deforestation has a negative impact on the current environment.

| Sep 8, 2023

A documentary revealing how indigenous peoples are trying to protect their land -- and the whole Brazilian rainforest -- from the invasion of nonnative farmers and illegal settlers.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 28, 2023

The message is clear - the world needs to pay much closer attention to what is happening in Brazil, before it's too late.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2023

This movie, directed by Alex Pritz, effectively shows both the efforts of those to save the rain forests, and those who are trying to carve out farms from the rain forest by cutting and burning the land. Both sides have their dreams.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 27, 2023

It's a compelling narrative with gorgeous cinematography that humanizes the insane destruction of our world's lungs.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 20, 2023

Immersive and informative, this already award-winning documentary offers a terrific template for how to present an even-handed look at a potentially thorny topic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 19, 2023

The film very diligently and very empathetically establishes a dual narrative, and also very carefully uses the right words to describe how these Natives are being attacked by dangerous outsiders.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 30, 2022

While clearly showing what will happen if the destruction of the rainforest and the indigenous people who live there continue, it also takes the time to present the views of those who see this as an opportunity to be landowners and farmers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2022

Rousing and infuriating...

| Dec 13, 2022

The Territory is not devoid of hope, and what proves most compelling is the desire of the Uru-eu-wau-wau to tell their own story.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 28, 2022

As the Uru-eu-wau-wau people face continued incursion by Brazilian farmers, they take an active role in this documentary about them.

| Nov 14, 2022

For the first time ever, we get a look at these people and the struggle they are facing. Filmed over the course of three years, we can be sure that their part is told from their perspective as it was partially shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2022

It’s a sobering film offering little hope for the future of this part of the Amazon...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2022

"The Territory" presents a myriad of information with an up-close and personal look into the daily struggles of indigenous people, so much so that it's hard to simply look away.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2022

As well as being informative, the movie has cinematic power.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2022

This is vital, searing documentary filmmaking from producer Darren Aronofsky in which the intimate nuts and bolts of rainforest depletion are zeroed in on.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 8, 2022

The doc plays more like a thriller directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Murder, kidnapping, and politics enter the storyline making this a captivating watch elevated by the documentary’s principal subjects whose quandaries are heartfelt for all sides involved.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2022

The time Pritz spends with various factions of settlers—including filming them on illegal incursions into the jungle in trucks or on scooters as they sharpen their chainsaws and hack away at nature—helps contextualize the issue more globally.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 5, 2022

A must watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2022